Connectivity to the cloud

Case study: Channel 5

"Claranet fully repaid our trust in them: they delivered on the guarantees they promised in their service level agreement by providing an affordable, scalable and ultra-reliable hosting and management service."
Paul Thornton Jones

Managing unpredictable web traffic volumes

Channel 5’s strategy is to drive additional on-demand video views from the Big Brother catch-up programmes and clips through various online assets. These applications needed to cope with extremely high and unpredictable volumes of traffic, and be tested and implemented in only 6 weeks.

Application hosting and management solution

Claranet delivered the application hosting and management for Channel 5's Big Brother apps, designed to handle unpredictability. The apps across three data centres which fail over to each other in case of any outages. Claranet manages the live environment and the applications themselves to ensure the best possible performance.

Increased traffic and no downtime

The addition of the two Big Brother applications more than doubled the amount of total Channel 5 traffic; yet since the system went live, there has been no downtime, either for the new applications or for the rest of Channel 5’s web properties.